TELEGRAM TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY

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15. V. 1919

GuberniaExecutive CommitteeKostromafor Lunacharsky

Ihave asked the Commissariat for Food to report about
relief
measures.[1]I fear that the revolt in the Ukrainewill hinder the administration of relief, as the situation is
deteriorating.[2]Push ahead vigorously with mass
migration to the
Don.[3]Get in touch with Sereda.

[1]Lunacharsky,who had been sent to Kostroma as an authorised
agent of the All-Russia C.E.C. to combat desertions, reported on
the serious food situation in Kostroma and Kostroma
Gubernia.

[2]Thisrefers to the counter-revolutionary revolt of Ataman
Grigoriev, which broke out at the beginning of May 1919 in the rear
of the Soviet troops in the Ekaterinoslav and Kherson gubernias.
The revolt directly threatened the flank and rear of the Soviet
troops in the Donets Basin and the rear communications of units
of the 2nd Ukrainian Army in the Crimea, and also hindered
railway transport throughout the Ukraine. In the period from May
11 to 24, by simultaneous blows from the east, north and south,
the troops of the Ukrainian armies routed the insurgents.

[3]OnApril 24, 1919, the Council of People’s Commissars adopted
the decree “On Organising Migration to the Producing Gubernias
and the Don Region”. The migration of peasants and workers
of the northern gubernias of the R.S.F.S.R. to the southern areas
of the country was carried out in order to ease their plight in the
matter of food supply and restore agriculture in localities which
had suffered from whiteguard revolts.

Onthis subject see also the telegram of May 21, 1919, signed
by Lenin and S. P. Sereda, sent to the gubernia land departments
in Smolensk, Tver, Moscow and Ryazan (Lenin Miscellany XXXIV,
pp. 144–45).